Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal

by Margaret Visser (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.30

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $4.04

  An excursion into the origins and background of an ordinary dinner: corn on the cob, chicken with rice, lettuce salad and ice-cream. Tracing the historical, cultural, agricultural and social strands that run through their history, the author presents the reader with an anthropology of everyday life . This book was the winner of the 1990 Glenfiddich Award for the Food Book of the Year. The author also wrote The Rituals of Dinner .